: How to avoid "Adult" rating when publishing erotica on KDP If you are publishing erotic fiction in KDP, how do you avoid getting the "Adult" rating that will stop the book being easily searched

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Generally, in my experience the use of foul language or descriptive sex scenes will not cause your book to receive the dreaded "Adult" content rating. The primary content taboos are bestiality, incest, and non-consensual sex. Also, any nudity or blatantly sexual images on the cover will result in your book getting labeled as "Adult".
For some discussions on examples of people who have had their content labeled as "Adult", I would recommend going to the Kindle Boards forum and searching for the term "Adult Dungeon". Here is an additional discussion on the Amazon Adult Dungeon that will show an example of the randomness of Amazon's identification process.
I would recommend that you not worry too much about it. Just publish your book, and as long as it makes it beyond the initial review, you're probably okay. You can always monitor your books by using the Sales Rank Express web site. Just enter the author name and do a search to find your books. You will see your titles listed with a thumbnail of the cover, and to the right you will see something like this:

Book Title
Author Name | [No publisher] | 2016-03-01
Kindle Edition | ASIN: ##########
Languages: English (published) | Content Rating: Safe

The thing you want to look for is that "Content Rating". If it says "Adult", then that is like the kiss of death. If you feel that your content should not warrant such a label, then you should contact KDP and ask them to reconsider your book. If you think it is a valid label, then you may want to tone down your content or change your book cover.
If you would like to do a quick check before publishing, then try to find a book that you think would be similar to your own, and search for that author. If that book has a "Safe" content rating, then there's a pretty good chance that yours would as well.

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